diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7dabba2e..9485d40d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ NEWS ( CHANGELOG and HISTORY )                                     HTMLPurifier
   fix is to go about handling truncation a bit more cleverly so that
   we can wrap with divs (sidestepping the bug) but slurping out the
   rest of the text in case it ran off the end.  (#78)
+- Fix PREG_BACKTRACK_LIMIT_ERROR in HTMLPurifier_Filter_ExtractStyle.
+  Thanks @breathbath for contributing the report and fix (#120)
 # By default, when a link has a target attribute associated
   with it, we now also add rel="noopener" in order to
   prevent the new window from being able to overwrite
diff --git a/library/HTMLPurifier/Filter/ExtractStyleBlocks.php b/library/HTMLPurifier/Filter/ExtractStyleBlocks.php
index cc4324b6..8d781946 100644
--- a/library/HTMLPurifier/Filter/ExtractStyleBlocks.php
+++ b/library/HTMLPurifier/Filter/ExtractStyleBlocks.php
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ class HTMLPurifier_Filter_ExtractStyleBlocks extends HTMLPurifier_Filter
             $this->_tidy = $tidy;
         }
         $html = preg_replace_callback('#<style(?:\s.*)?>(.*)<\/style>#isU', array($this, 'styleCallback'), $html);
-        $style_blocks = array_filter($this->_styleMatches);
+        $style_blocks = $this->_styleMatches;
         $this->_styleMatches = array(); // reset
         $context->register('StyleBlocks', $style_blocks); // $context must not be reused
         if ($this->_tidy) {